Ramblings on the Seven Sins by DarthVengeance0325, literature
Literature
Ramblings on the Seven Sins
Pride in the sense of self assurance and triumph, of knowing one's limits and being confident in one's own abilities and achievements, is not bad.
But Pride in the sense of the desire to be superior, in haughtiness and arrogance, is well classed a Deadly Sin. To flaunt one's triumphs rather than accept them; to seek to gain greater ones and display one's superiority.
To wit, Pride as an emotion is, like many things of the world and heart, a gray matter; it may be good, or evil, and the good may become evil and the evil may do unintended good.
But Pride as a drive is inherently ruinous.
Envy is simple- envy is jealousy. The desire to be li